Here are three things to know about Thursday’s Stars-Wild game.<\/p>\n
Where: American Airlines Center\u00a0<\/p>\n
TV\/Streaming:\u00a0Hulu\/ESPN+<\/p>\n
Radio: Sportsradio 96.7\/1310 The Ticket<\/p>\n
The Stars (46-20-12, second in the Central Division) have four games remaining in their regular season and take the ice against Minnesota holding a two-point lead over the Wild (45-21-12, third in the Central), who also have four games remaining.<\/p>\n
Dallas has already clinched the tiebreaker over Minnesota (regulation wins), meaning the Stars would really be putting the Wild’s backs against the wall with a regulation victory. In that scenario, the Stars would hold a four-point lead and the tiebreaker with three games left. One more win would lock in home-ice advantage against Minnesota in the first round.<\/p>\n
A loss would tie the teams at 104 points and up the importance of each side’s final three games.<\/p>\n
After getting his bloody nose plugged up, Robertson returned to the game on Tuesday and is expected to play against Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Good thing, too: Robertson has 21 points (13 goals, 8 assists) in 18 career games played against the Wild, and enters Thursday’s contest riding a four-game points streak against Minnesota.<\/p>\n
These two teams are likely going to be so sick of each other here in a few weeks…<\/p>\n
As division rivals, the Stars and the Wild have already faced off three times this season (5-2 win; 5-2 loss; 2-1 overtime loss) with a fourth and final time coming on Thursday. Then they’ll play at least another four games against each other in the first round, though you have to expect it’ll be more than that.<\/p>\n
They could wind up having to play each other as many as 11 times this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are three things to know about Thursday’s Stars-Wild game. Where: American Airlines Center\u00a0 TV\/Streaming:\u00a0Hulu\/ESPN+ Radio: Sportsradio 96.7\/1310…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87994,88187,90780],"class_list":{"0":"post-241235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-tp-dallas-stars","12":"tag-tp-jason-robertson","13":"tag-tp-nhl-playoffs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}